User's Manual

In addition to the code for your location, you may wish to enter additional codes for surrounding areas and
any other areas of interest so that you can receive advance warning of adverse or dangerous weather that
may be headed in your direction.
Unlike other weather alert radios, your scanner features a powerful SAME wildcard feature that allows you
to set the radio to alarm on partial matches of the location code. For example, the SAME location code for
Dallas, TX is 048113, which can be broken down as follows:
0 represents a subdivision within a county, and is typically not used.
48 is the State code for Texas
113 is the County code for Dallas County
Entering the entire 048113 code will cause the radio to receive all SAME alerts that match the code for
Dallas County.
Suppose you wanted to receive any alert for any county in the entire state (provided that the alert is sent by
your local NWS transmitter). Using the wildcard feature you can enter a SAME area code as follows:
*48***
This tells the radio to alert on any SAME message with a location code that matches 48 for the state of
Texas.
Your scanner also allows you to specify the event code. The default alert code is “***”, which is best for
most general purpose weather alert monitoring purposes. A list of event codes can be found at this web
site:
http://www.weather.gov/os/eas_codes.shtml
Each SAME location/event code storage location can be configured for Entry ON/OFF and Lockout
ON/OFF.
When a SAME location/event code storage location is set for Entry ON, the radio will process the SAME
location/event code that is stored there. When a SAME location/event code storage location is set for Entry
OFF, that SAME location and event code will be ignored.
When a SAME location/event code storage location is set for Entry ON and Lockout ON, the radio will
process the SAME location/event code that is stored there, and will lock out the specified event code. A